Topic: Hackers threaten to leak Ashley Madison's 37 million clients (Read 5738 times)

Good point.

Well fortunately for those involved in relationships with adolescent intolerant fuckwits (national hat wearing or personal), a name or email on a hacker dump can hardly be seen as proof of looking for a sexual relationship. 

If you are in such a position of being accused of looking for a sexual relationship (imagine the horror, primates looking for a sexual relationship!), it is recommended that you take the leaked .txt file in question and add the email address of your accuser to it, save, and pass it onward.  This might make them think twice about your-name-on-a-list as proof of guilt.     


 

ROFLMAO.... Do you realize that Ashley Madison had at least one million users, who were using the service to find same-sex relationships? There were around 700,000 women users who were looking for female partners, and some 350,000 male users, who were looking for gay partners. They even had gay users from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Looking for it. There has to be at least a couple .gov or .mil email address. you'd think they would know about OPSEC?
So just to be sure, is it even legal to download this data? Because a lot of people seem eager to do that.

Is it too late to add my email to the list? 

I'm afraid my wife and girlfriends will find out I wasn't looking for sex there and assume I am gay or impotent.

The number likely included a bunch of bots in the early stages of the site
Unconfrimed accounts, and hidden profiles so whether it really is roughly the size of all of Canada would be a bit extreme.
(Actually even a bit bigger)

Still from Police officers to law officials it really did cover all walks of life

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/newsalertunconfirmed-reports-of-two-ashley-madison-related-suicidespolice-322683191.html

U.S. government employees with sensitive jobs in national security and law enforcement were also among those found to be using government networks to access the website, including at least two assistant U.S. attorneys, an information technology administrator in the White House's support staff and a government hacker and counterterrorism employee at the Homeland Security Department.

Ashley Madison: 'Suicides' over website hack


Two individuals associated with the leak of Ashley Madison customer details are reported to have taken their lives, according to police in Canada.

The police in Toronto gave no further information about the deaths.



Ashley Madison's Canadian parent company Avid Life Media is offering a C$500,000 (£240,000) reward for information on the hackers, they added.

Details of more than 33m accounts were stolen from the website, which offers users the chance to have an affair.

Addressing the hackers, known as The Impact Team, acting staff superintendent Bryce Evans of the Toronto police said: "I want to make it very clear to you your actions are illegal and we will not be tolerating them. This is your wake-up call."
Police are seeking information from members of the wider hacker community that might aid their investigation.

The breach was "very sophisticated", said Detective Menard from the technological crime unit of Toronto Police.

Cash reward

Mr Evans confirmed that credit card data was included in the original data dump released by The Impact Team.

He said that investigators believed this was limited to the last four digits of the main card number.

Consequently, police are advising victims of the hack to review their accounts.

He also explained that the hack had already led to a series of "spin-offs of crimes and further victimisation".

"Criminals have already engaged in online scams by claiming to provide access to the leaked websites," he said.

"The public needs to be aware that by clicking on these links you are exposing your computers to malware, spyware, adware and viruses."

'Thunderstruck'

The unfolding of the hack was also detailed at the conference - from the moment on 12 July when several Avid Life Media employees logged in to their computers and were confronted by a message from the hackers.

This message was accompanied by music - AC/DC's "Thunderstruck", said Mr Evans.

"This hack is one of the largest data breaches in the world and is very unique on its own in that it exposed tens of millions of people's personal information," he added.

Police have set up a Twitter account, @AMCaseTPS, and hashtag, #AMCaseTPS, in a bid to gather information about the hack from members of the public.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34044506

People marry for many more reasons than that, but that doesn't mean marriage is no longer marriage.

This, marriage as an institution has slowly declined and it's no longer as strong as it was. And now you see people that take their bows so lightly that is not funny.

A significant number of people marry because:

1) Tradition
2) "It's the right thing to do"
3) Money
4) "Got my gf pregnant"

can't they just deny everything as usual and say that their data has been planted in the site to harm their reputation and blackmail them?

I get the feeling that up to 10 million of those users are bots or fake users. I highly doubt that there are 37 million real users.

Honestly I don't give two shits one way or another if you're ballsy enough to cheat on your spouse you should have the balls to face the consequences as a man or woman

Ashley Madison faces $578M Canadian class-action lawsuit

The part that gets me is 37 MILLION PEOPLE. I mean, really? I know there are lots of people who have affairs, way more than 10%, but I had no idea so many people actually subscribed to that service.

This leak just exposed tens of thousands of men. A lot of shitty marriages just received their death sentence

Pathetic. The average IQ of the American military leaders seems to be quite low, as evident from this scandal. People, who don't know about the risk in using their official email on a site such as Ashley Madison are going to make important decisions such as bombing terrorist hideouts and rescuing civilians and hostages from armed groups?

Most of the people on the site are probably not swingers. Regardless, obviously the swingers have nothing to worry about the place getting hacked and nothing to explain to their partners, (except if they tried to get their credit card info erased and that didn't happen of course).

Good topic! I like.

 
OMG, what a circlejerk...

Just because the advertising focuses on cheating, therefore all the members must be cheaters, right? They say assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups, except in this case I have my doubts about the amount of sex people on the bitcointalk-forum-raised-to-the-power-of-the-politics-subforum are having.

Warning! The following information may cause some readers' heads to explode...

There exists this weird thing called "swinging", where bored couples have fun by switching partners and stuff. And it's only cheating if there's some element of secrecy or lack of consent.

/warning.

Also, feminists? Seriously? That would be like lesbians hacking "Grindr" for having too many males.

lol, what the hell? it'll be funny if they really did discuss US military matters using AshleyMadison.

"The leaked AshleyMadison data could also be useful for extorting U.S. military personnel and potentially stealing U.S. government secrets, experts fear. Some 15,000 email addresses ending in dot-mil (the top-level domain for the U.S. military) were included in the leaked AshleyMadison database, and this has top military officials just a tad concerned."

Sheesh.

Busted!!
Oh well, shit happens...

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/extortionists-target-ashley-madison-users/

Heard that a few divorce cases have been already filed after the leaked data was dumped all over the darknet. But there is a chance that a few people will be wrongly identified as Ashley Madison users. Ashley Madison users had no requirement of verifying their emails. So there is a chance that some of the users might have given other's email IDs.

Perfect site to hit,these dating sites keep a lot of data on the clients. Most likely why the Plenty of Fish guy sold his site.

"The hacker or hackers who infiltrated Canadian-based cheating site Ashley Madison have dumped several gigabytes of user information on the Internet.

Wired reported that the hackers, who go by the name The Impact Team, posted almost 10 gigabytes of user data on the dark web Tuesday.

    UPDATE: experts speaking to The Huffington Post say the data dump appears to be authentic. "It's entirely reasonable to assume that this data is legitimate unless it can be proven to the contrary," security specialist Troy Hunt told The Huffington Post.

    UPDATE 2: Avid Life Media, the company behind Ashley Madison, confirms to Reuters that some data has been leaked online by hackers. The company also repeated its claim that it never stored credit card data online.

The files reportedly include information for 32 million users, including login information, addresses, credit cards and phone numbers. Ashley Madison advertises itself as "the most famous name in infidelity and married dating" on its website. It has 36 million members in 46 countries, Business Insider reports.
Avid Life Media (ALM), the parent company of Ashley Madison and Established Men, another site the hackers also demanded be shut down, released a statement slamming reports of the hack to The Huffington Post Canada on Tuesday......."

I am 100% against cheating on someone, why not end one relationship before moving onto another ?
There is no justification for cheating on another person. It is destructive and hurtful

Oh, that response will surely give you the credibility and acknowledgement you're looking for from your peers.  Who are you talking to?

Probably 36 million of them will be male (and 90% of them will be unmarried guys, who are not being able to get laid), and the remaining 1 million will be female. Females don't need the help of internet to get in to an extra-marital affair, while most of the men need the same. Men and women, who are attractive and not impotent, doesn't need Ashley Madison. 

37M is a huge number, I'm shocked it's that high. I wonder how many of those users are people who created an account once and never actually used it as opposed to people who use it regularly.

Divorce lawyers everywhere are rejoicing

Aww, he doesn't even realized he has already forfeited the privilege of communicating with me, he still thinks I can read his shitposts! That's adorable.

This is a joke, right?

Your logical fallacy is straw man, and it's prompted by your intellectually dishonest habit of perpetual selective reading, a form of confirmation bias.

Of course you're going to think that you've proven everyone false if you make up their arguments for them

Mister Man!

Wow. A politically-correct non-religious radical feminist supporter. Must be an American. I half expected to end with "Mister Man."

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/special-pleading

Oh, they must not exist than. After all, your single anecdote suggests they don't exist!

Congrats, you're a male-chauvinist misogynistic ignoramus piece of shit, in the proud tradition of religious men everywhere.

Nowadays close to half of all the marriages end up in divorce. This proportion will rise further in the coming decades, as the radical feminism becomes stronger. More and more anti-male laws and regulations are being created, and marriage has become another business opportunity for gold diggers to squeeze out money from the wealthy middle-aged males.

I'm not sure what society you refer to.  Many who haven't had the chance to get out simply pretend they have more adventurous sex lives.  I've not known people who go the other way and pretend they don't.  Married couples better have some stories about threesomes or swapping or whatever, especially in political or other prestigious careers.    

Why not some radical LGBT group, which is opposed to heterosexual relationships? That said, the news reports indicates that the hack was done by someone who was not happy about the fee being charged by Ashley Madison, to delete the profiles (they charge $20 for the same). So in all probability, the hack was done by a disgruntled ex-user.

That's making a straw man of the point.  I didn't say sex is a drug, nor did I say it's necessarily unhealthy.

Sex is not a drug, it's completely natural and both mentally and physically healthy for you (excluding STIs obviously). In fact, sex preserves youthful vitality, where as most drugs age you.

This comparison is not at all apt. http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/guide/sex-and-health

Also pay attention to the immense social pressure to be sexy, to the glorification of sexual promiscuity in the media linked to social status, to the breakdown in effective person-to-person communication as a result of digital technology, to the exponential increase in ADHD diagnoses in adults, etc.  Didn't you say you were a psychology major or something?  



People with one sexual partner are accepted by society. If you have multiple sexual partners, you have to hide it from the world, especially in political or other prestigious careers.

The same was true about homosexuals 25 years ago.